Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Doherty

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

Pete Doherty

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

Pete Doherty

If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

Simon Rattle

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Le Bon

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

Reese Witherspoon

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

Tiny Tim

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

Tipper Gore

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Tina Yothers

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

Tina Yothers

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.

Tina Yothers

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

Tinie Tempah

Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.

Ringo Starr

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

Ringo Starr

I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.

Ringo Starr

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

Richie Sambora

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

Tim McGraw

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Tim McGraw

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

Tom Stoppard

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

Tom Morello

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Tom Glazer

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Tina Weymouth

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Tina Weymouth

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Tina Weymouth

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Thurston Moore

So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

S. J. Perelman

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Russell Sherman

To master the piano is to master the universe.

Russell M. Nelson

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Rumi

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Roy Haynes

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

Roy Haynes

You must own it to play it.